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National Assembly of Quebec
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The National Assembly of Quebec is the legislative body of the Province of Quebec in Canada. The Lieutenant Governor, and the National Assembly compose the Legislature of Quebec, the National Assembly was formerly the lower house of Quebecs legislature and was then called the Legislative Assembly of Quebec. In 1968, the house, the Legislative Council, was abolished. The current President of the National Assembly is Liberal MNA Jacques Chagnon, the Legislative Assembly was created in Lower Canada by the Constitutional Act of 1791. It was abolished from 1841 to 1867 under the 1840 Act of Union which merged Upper Canada, the Constitution Act,1867, which created Canada, split the Province of Canada into the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario. The Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada was thus restored as the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, the original Quebec legislature was bicameral, consisting of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly. Before 1968, there had been unsuccessful attempts at abolishing the Legislative Council. In 1978, television cameras were brought in for the first time to televise parliamentary debates, the colour of the walls was changed to suit the needs of television and the salon vert became the salon bleu. Its facade presents a pantheon representing significant events and people of the history of Quebec, additional buildings were added next to the Parliament Buildings, Édifice André-Laurendeau was added from 1935 to 1937 to house the Ministry of Transport. Édifice Honoré-Mercier was added from 1922 to 1925 to house the Ministries of the Treasury, the Attorney General, Édifice Jean-Antoine-Panet was added from 1931 to 1932 for the Ministry of Agriculture. Édifice Pamphile-Le May added from 1910 to 1915 for the Library of the National Assembly, various government offices. General elections are held five years or less. Any person holding Canadian citizenship and who has resided in Quebec for at least six months qualifies to be on the electoral list. Normally, the leader of the party with the largest number of elected candidates is asked by the Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec to form the government as premier. Quebecs territory is divided into 125 electoral districts, in each riding, the candidate who receives the most votes is elected and becomes a Member of the National Assembly. This is known as the first-past-the-post voting system and it tends to produce strong disparities in the number of seats won compared to the popular vote, perhaps best exemplified by the 1966,1970,1973, and 1998 elections. Quebec elections have tended to be volatile since the 1970s. Consequently, existing political parties often lose more than half their seats with the rise of new or opposition political parties, for instance, the 1970 and 1973 saw the demise of the Union Nationale and rise of the Parti Québécois which managed to take power in 1976

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Quebec
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Quebec is the second-most populous province of Canada and the only one to have a predominantly French-speaking population, with French as the sole provincial official language. Quebec is Canadas largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division and it also shares maritime borders with Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. Quebec is Canadas second-most populous province, after Ontario, most inhabitants live in urban areas near the Saint Lawrence River between Montreal and Quebec City, the capital. Approximately half of Quebec residents live in the Greater Montreal Area, the Nord-du-Québec region, occupying the northern half of the province, is sparsely populated and inhabited primarily by Aboriginal peoples. Even in central Quebec at comparatively southerly latitudes winters are severe in inland areas, Quebec independence debates have played a large role in the politics of the province. Parti Québécois governments held referendums on sovereignty in 1980 and 1995, in 2006, the House of Commons of Canada passed a symbolic motion recognizing the Québécois as a nation within a united Canada. These many industries have all contributed to helping Quebec become an economically influential province within Canada, early variations in the spelling of the name included Québecq and Kébec. French explorer Samuel de Champlain chose the name Québec in 1608 for the colonial outpost he would use as the seat for the French colony of New France. The province is sometimes referred to as La belle province, the Province of Quebec was founded in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 after the Treaty of Paris formally transferred the French colony of Canada to Britain after the Seven Years War. The proclamation restricted the province to an area along the banks of the Saint Lawrence River, the Treaty of Versailles ceded territories south of the Great Lakes to the United States. After the Constitutional Act of 1791, the territory was divided between Lower Canada and Upper Canada, with each being granted an elected legislative assembly, in 1840, these become Canada East and Canada West after the British Parliament unified Upper and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada. This territory was redivided into the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario at Confederation in 1867, each became one of the first four provinces. In 1898, the Canadian Parliament passed the first Quebec Boundary Extension Act that expanded the provincial boundaries northward to include the lands of the aboriginal peoples. This was followed by the addition of the District of Ungava through the Quebec Boundaries Extension Act of 1912 that added the northernmost lands of the Inuit to create the modern Province of Quebec. In 1927, the border between Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador was established by the British Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Located in the part of Canada, and part of Central Canada. Its topography is very different from one region to another due to the composition of the ground, the climate. The Saint Lawrence Lowland and the Canadian Shield are the two main regions, and are radically different

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Quebec Liberal Party
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The Quebec Liberal Party QLP is a federalist provincial political party in Quebec, Canada. It has been independent of the federal Liberal Party of Canada since 1955, while the party has been described as centre-right in the context of Canadian politics, the party believes in a strong role for government in the economy and supports socially liberal policies. Also the party has had a prominent social-democratic faction within it that was prominent in the party during the Quiet Revolution. The Quebec Liberals have always associated with the colour red. The most notable figure of this period was Louis-Joseph Papineau, the Liberals were in opposition to the ruling Conservatives for most of the first 20 years after Canadian Confederation, except for 18 months of Liberal minority government in 1878-1879. However, the changed in 1885 when the federal Conservative government executed Louis Riel. This decision was unpopular in Quebec, honoré Mercier rode this wave of discontent to power in 1887, but was brought down by a scandal in 1891. He was later cleared of all charges, the Conservatives returned to power until 1897. The Liberals won the 1897 election, and held power without interruption for the next 39 years and this mirrored the situation in Ottawa, where the arrival of Wilfrid Laurier in the 1896 federal election marked the beginning of Liberal Party of Canada dominance at the federal level. Notable long-serving Premiers of Quebec in this era were Lomer Gouin, by 1935, however, the Conservatives had an ambitious new leader, Maurice Duplessis. Duplessis merged his party with dissident ex-Liberals who had formed the Action libérale nationale, Duplessis led the new party, the Union Nationale, to power in the 1936 election. The Liberals returned to power in the 1939 election, but lost it again in the 1944 election and they remained in opposition to the Union Nationale until one year after Duplessiss death in 1959. In 1955, the PLQ severed its affiliation with the Liberal Party of Canada, under Jean Lesage, the party won an historic election in 1960, ending sixteen years of rule by the national-conservative Union Nationale. This marked the beginning of the Quiet Revolution, which dramatically changed Québec society, under Lesage, the Liberals developed a Quebec nationalist wing. In October 1967, former cabinet minister René Lévesques proposed that the party endorse his plan for sovereignty association, relations soured between the Quebec Liberal Party and the federal Liberal Party under Lesage, and worsened further under Robert Bourassa who had a poor relationship with Pierre Trudeau. Reelected in 1973, his government was embarrassed by several scandals. Bourassa resigned from the leadership after the loss of the 1976 election to René Lévesques Parti Québécois. Bourassa was succeeded as Liberal leader by Claude Ryan, the director of the respected Montréal newspaper

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Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
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Louis-Alexandre Taschereau was the 14th Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec from 1920 to 1936. He was elected four times, the first in 1900, in the riding of Montmorency and he was also a member of the Parti libéral du Québec. Born in Quebec City, Quebec, the son of Jean-Thomas Taschereau, lawyer and judge at the Supreme Court and he received a law degree from Université Laval and was admitted to the Barreau du Quebec on July 9,1889. After entering political life, he served as lieutenant in the Liberal government of Sir Lomer Gouin. He practised his profession in the law firm of Charles Fitzpatrick and he was also journalist at the Action Libérale and president and vice-president of the Banque dEconomie de Québec. A Member of the Legislative Assembly from 1900 onwards, he served as Premier Lomer Gouins Minister of Public Works from 1907 to 1919. His policies challenged the traditional agrarian society that the dominance and influence of the Roman Catholic Church had been able to maintain in Quebec longer than elsewhere in North America. Some newspapers saw the move by Taschereau to revamp the confessional school system as an example of an undermining of Christianity. In the resulting bill, Jews were sent back into the Protestant system, another policy of Taschereau involved the alcohol trade. It consisted of providing the government of Quebec with a monopoly on the sale of liquor, Taschereau created the Beaux-Arts schools in Quebec City and Montreal and subsidized scientific and literary works. He was awarded Frances Legion of Honour, the Order of Leopold, in the later years of his premiership, discontent inside the Liberal Party became evident. The more radical wing of the party left the Liberals and formed a new party. Paul Gouin, the son of Lomer Gouin and grandson of Honoré Mercier, with the election of the Union Nationale in 1936, the Liberal rule which had lasted for 40 years came to a halt. The premier served on the boards of a number of companies, including. Caisse déconomie, Molson Bank, Canadian Investments Funds, Bank of Montreal, Royal Trust Company, Sun Life Assurance, Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Co. Globe Indemnity Co. and the Manitoba Liverpool Insurance Co, Taschereau was not re-elected after 1936 because numerous corruption scandals. On his passing in Quebec City in 1952, Taschereau was interred in the Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont in Sainte-Foy and he won the 1923 election,1927 election,1931 election and 1935 election and resigned in 1936. Politics of Quebec List of Quebec general elections Timeline of Quebec history Vigod, Bernard L. Quebec Before Duplessis, dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours

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List of Quebec premiers
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This is a list of the premiers of the province of Quebec, Canada, since Confederation in 1867. Quebec uses a unicameral Westminster-style parliamentary government, in which the premier is the leader of the party controls the most seats in the National Assembly. The premier, sometimes called the minister, is Quebecs head of government. The premier picks a cabinet from the members to form the Executive Council of Quebec. Members are first elected to the legislature during general elections, general elections must be conducted every five years from the date of the last election, but the premier may ask for early dissolution of the legislative assembly. An election may also if the Governing party loses the confidence of the legislature. This article only covers the time since the Canadian Confederation was created in 1867, for the premiers of the Canada East from 1840 to 1867, see List of Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada. The governments of Lower Canada from 1792 to 1840 were mostly controlled by representatives of the Crown, conservative Party Union Nationale Quebec Liberal Party Parti Québécois As of June 2015, six former premiers are alive, the oldest being Bernard Landry. The most recent former premier to die was Jacques Parizeau, on June 1,2015, nombre de premiers ministres et de gouvernements depuis 1867

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Politics of Quebec
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The politics of Quebec are centred on a provincial government resembling that of the other Canadian provinces, namely a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy. The capital of Quebec is Quebec City, where the Lieutenant Governor, Premier, the legislature, the unicameral legislature — the National Assembly of Quebec — has 125 members. Government is conducted based on the Westminster model, the British-type parliamentarism based on the Westminster system was introduced in the Province of Lower Canada in 1791. The diagram at right represents the system of Québec since the 1968 reform. Prior to this reform, the Parliament of Québec was bicameral, Lieutenant Governor asks the leader of the majority party to form a government in which he will serve as Premier enacts the laws adopted by the National Assembly has a theoretical veto power. Many of Quebecs political institutions are among the oldest in North America, the first part of this article presents the main political institutions of Quebec society. The last part presents Québecs current politics and issues, the Parliament of Québec holds the legislative power. It consists of the National Assembly of Québec and the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, the National Assembly is part of a legislature based on the Westminster System. The representatives of the Québec people are elected with the first-past-the-post electoral method, the government is constituted by the majority party and it is responsible to the National Assembly. Since the abolition of the Legislative Council at the end of 1968, the government of Quebec consists of all the ministries and governmental branches that do not have the status of independent institutions, such as municipalities and regional county municipalities. The Executive Council is the responsible for decision-making in the government. It is composed of the Lieutenant Governor, the Premier, the government ministers, the Executive Council directs the government and the civil service, and oversees the enforcement of laws, regulations and policies. Together with the Lieutenant Governor, it constitutes the government of Québec, the Ombudsman has certain powers defined by the Public Protector Act. The Québec Ombudsman has a contract with Québécois to ensure the transparency of the state. The Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse is a publicly funded agency created by the Charter of Human Rights and its members are appointed by the National Assembly. The commission has been given powers to promote and protect human rights within all sectors of Québec society, Government institutions and Parliament are bound by the provisions of the Charter. The commission may investigate into possible cases of discrimination, whether by the State or by private parties and it may introduce litigation if its recommendations were not followed. The Office Québécois de la Langue Française is an organization created in 1961 and its mandate was greatly expanded by the 1977 Charter of the French Language

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List of political parties in Canada
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This article lists political parties in Canada. One exception is the New Democratic Party, which is integrated with most of its provincial counterparts including a shared membership. Elected legislative government was re-established in 1951, like Nunavut, NWT elects independent candidates and operates by consensus. Some candidates in recent years have asserted that they were running on behalf of a party, the majority of municipal politics in Canada are non-partisan, but the municipal governments of Vancouver and Montreal operate on a party system

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List of Quebec general elections
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This article provides a summary of results for the general elections to the Canadian province of Quebecs unicameral legislative body, the National Assembly of Quebec. The number of seats has increased over time, from 65 for the first six elections. The chart on the right shows the information graphically, with the most recent elections towards the right. The Conservative party disappeared after 1935 and was replaced by the Union Nationale, the nineteen seventies saw the arrival of the sovereignist Parti Québécois, to be followed by Québec Solidaire and the Coalition Avenir Québec in 2006 and 2011, respectively. This article only covers elections since the Canadian confederation in 1867, for Quebecs first 15 elections as Lower Canada from 1792 to 1840, see Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada. For the 8 joint elections of Ontario and Quebec as the Province of Canada, from 1840 to 1867, the table below shows the total number of seats won by the political parties in each election. It also shows the percentage of the vote obtained by each party, the winning partys totals are shown in bold. There have been five elections in which the party did not have the largest share of the popular vote. Full details on any election are linked via the year of the election at the start of the row, a Includes all Independent Conservative candidates elected from 1875 to 1892. B Results include the by-election on 20 May 2003 in the Champlain electoral district to break a tie in the general election. C Results include the by-election on 14 December 1998 in the Masson electoral district due to the death of PQ candidate Yves Blais on 22 November 1998, D Results include the by-election on 24 October 1994 in the Saint-Jean electoral district to break a tie in the original general election. E Includes Independent Liberal candidate, the 27 May 1912 election of Gustave Lemieux by acclamation in Gaspé, F Includes the Independent Liberal candidate elected. G Includes the Conservative candidate elected in the held in Kamouraska on 11 February 1869. H Power went back and forth a few times after the 1878 election, for most of that legislature, the Liberals controlled a minority parliament with the support of some Conservative members. I The Action démocratique du Québec ran from 1994–2008, the Coalition avenir Québec was founded in 2011, merged with the ADQ, and ran in its first election in 2012. La répartition des voix aux élections générales, la répartition des sièges aux élections générales. Le Directeur Général des Élections du Québec

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Quebec general election, 1970
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The Quebec general election of 1970 was held on April 29,1970, to elect members of the National Assembly of Quebec, Canada. The former Legislative Assembly had been renamed the National Assembly in 1968, the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Robert Bourassa, defeated the incumbent Union Nationale, led by Jean-Jacques Bertrand. This election marked the first appearance by a new party, the sovereigntist Parti Québécois, the PQ won a modest seven seats, although Lévesque was defeated in his own riding. The Union Nationale, which had governed Quebec through most of the 1940s and 1950s and this was partly because a significant number of the Union Nationales younger supporters had embraced sovereigntism, and shifted their support to the PQ. Note, * Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election,1 including results of Rassemblement pour lindépendance nationale and Ralliement national from previous election

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Quebec general election, 1973
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The Quebec general election of 1973 was held on October 29,1973 to elect members to National Assembly of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Robert Bourassa, won re-election, defeating the Parti Québécois, led by René Lévesque, the Liberals won a large majority of the seats. The Union Nationale, which had held power until the previous 1970 general election, was wiped off the electoral map, however, UN candidate Maurice Bellemare later won a seat in a 1974 by-election. The Parti Québécois held its own, dropping one seat. The popular vote was not lopsided as the distribution of seats would indicate, the Parti Québécois, for instance, won 30% of the popular vote, a significant improvement over their previous showing of 23% in the 1970 election. However, Quebec elections have produced significant disparities in party seat counts

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Quebec general election, 1976
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The Quebec general election of 1976 was held on November 15,1976 to elect members to National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. It was one of the most significant elections in Quebec history, rivalled only by the 1960 general election, the Parti Québécois, led by René Lévesque, defeated the incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Robert Bourassa. The Parti Québécoiss campaign focused on providing good government, to contrast the many scandals that had plagued the Liberals since 1973, the Parti Québécois used its term in office to introduce numerous bills to implement its agenda. The legislative number of bill, Bill One, was intended to signify the importance of this bill for the new government. The bill was withdrawn and significantly altered, however, and was eventually re-introduced as Bill 101, with some modifications, the Charter of the French Language remains in effect today and has shaped modern Quebec society in far-reaching ways. The 1976 election also set the stage for the 1980 Quebec referendum on the PQs proposal for independence in an economic union with the rest of Canada called sovereignty-association. The proposal was defeated in the referendum. Bourassa had called the election only three years, well before the five-year maximum possible term. He not only lost the election, but was defeated in his own riding by a PQ challenger. Bourassa resigned as Liberal leader, and his career appeared to be over. He left Quebec and took up teaching positions in the United States, however he later made a remarkable comeback in the 1985 general election. The once-powerful Union Nationale made a modest comeback after being evicted from the three years earlier. It won 11 seats under Rodrigue Biron, and for the first time won significant support from some anglophone voters, an anglophone UN member, William Shaw was elected to the National Assembly. However, this proved to be the partys last hurrah and it never won another seat in any subsequent election, though it would continue to nominally exist until 1989. The overall results were, Note, * Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election

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Quebec general election, 1981
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The Quebec general election of 1981 was held on April 13,1981, to elect members of the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Parti Québécois, led by René Lévesque, won re-election, defeating the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Claude Ryan. To some extent, they were helped by Claude Ryans old-fashioned campaign style, he refused to sound bites for the evening news. Despite finishing only three percent behind the PQ, the Liberals still finished a distant second, with 42 seats to the PQs 80. The Union Nationale, which had won 11 seats in a modest comeback in the 1976 general election, was reduced to five seats at dissolution by numerous floor crossings, retirements and resignations. Among the departures was that of its leader in the 1976 election, Rodrigue Biron, the once-proud party lost all of its remaining seats, never to return. The party essentially ended at this point, though it lingered in desultory fashion until 1989, the overall results were, Note, * Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election or information not available. List of Quebec premiers Politics of Quebec Timeline of Quebec history List of Quebec political parties 32nd National Assembly of Quebec CBC TV video clip Results by party Results for all ridings

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Quebec general election, 1985
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The Quebec general election of 1985 was held on December 2,1985, to elect members of the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The Quebec Liberal Party, led by former premier Robert Bourassa, defeated the incumbent Parti Québécois and this election marked the comeback of Robert Bourassa, whose political career had been thought to be over after losing the 1976 general election and resigning as Liberal leader. However, Bourassa personally failed to win his own seat in the Bertrand electoral district, the 1985 Quebec general election result produced by far the largest majority of any Canadian legislative election by a winning party whose leader failed to win his own seat. Johnson, son of former Union Nationale premier Daniel Johnson Sr. was unable to revive the PQs fortune after he succeeded René Lévesque as party leader and premier, pierre-Marcs brother, Daniel Johnson Jr. later became leader of the Liberal Party and briefly served as premier. This election was the last contested by the Union Nationale and it only ran candidates in 19 ridings, none of whom came close to being elected. The party would be wound up by authorities in 1989. The overall results were, Note, * Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election, list of Quebec premiers Politics of Quebec Timeline of Quebec history 33rd National Assembly of Quebec CBC TV video clip Results by party Results for all ridings

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Quebec general election, 1994
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The Quebec general election of 1994 was held on September 12,1994, to elect members of the National Assembly of Quebec, Canada. The Parti Québécois, led by Jacques Parizeau, defeated the incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, both his father, Daniel Sr. and brother, Pierre-Marc, had previously served as premiers of Quebec as leaders of different parties. This election was significant for Quebec history, because it set the stage for the 1995 Quebec referendum on independence for Quebec from Canada. In this referendum, the PQs proposals for sovereignty were very narrowly defeated. Mario Dumont, a president of the Liberal partys youth wing, and then leader of the newly formed Action démocratique du Québec, won his own seat. In Saint-Jean there was a tie between incumbent Liberal candidate Michel Charbonneau and PQ candidate Roger Paquin, a new election was held on October 24 and was won by Paquin by a margin of 532 votes. The overall results were, List of Quebec premiers Politics of Quebec Timeline of Quebec history 35th National Assembly of Quebec CBC TV video clip Results by party Results for all ridings

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Quebec general election, 1998
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The Quebec general election of 1998 was held on November 30,1998, to elect members of the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Parti Québécois, led by Lucien Bouchard, won re-election, defeating the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Jean Charest. After the narrow defeat of the PQs proposal for independence for Quebec in an economic union with the rest of Canada in the 1995 Quebec referendum. Bouchard left federal politics, where he was leader of the Bloc Québécois in the Canadian House of Commons, to lead the Parti Québécois, Jean Charest had also left federal politics, where he had been leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Charest was initially seen as a bad fit for the Quebec Liberal Party, in terms of the number of seats won by each of the two parties, the result was almost identical to the previous 1994 general election. However, this time the Liberals won a larger percentage of the popular vote. Mario Dumont, leader of the Action démocratique du Québec, repeated his success in winning his own seat, however, his party also repeated its failure to elect any other member apart from its leader. The overall results were, Note, * Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election, List of Quebec political parties List of Quebec premiers Politics of Quebec Timeline of Quebec history 36th National Assembly of Quebec CBC TV video clip Results by party Results for all ridings

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Quebec general election, 2003
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The Quebec general election of 2003 was held on April 14,2003, to elect members of the National Assembly of Quebec. The Parti libéral du Québec, led by Jean Charest, defeated the incumbent Parti Québécois, a new election was held on May 20 and was won by Champagne by a margin of 642 votes. In 2002, the Parti Québécois government had been in power for two mandates and it was seen as worn-out by some, and its poll numbers fell sharply. It placed third at its lowest point, an important part of its support was going to the Action Démocratique du Québec and its young leader, Mario Dumont. Some PQ supporters had left for the Liberal party, Landry, leader of the PQ, undertook a revitalization of the party and its image. As the ideas of the nature of ADQs platform became more apparent. Social democratic measures taken by the PQ government, like the passing of the Law against poverty helped improve the PQs standing in the opinion polls. PLQ leader Jean Charest initially continued to be unpopular with voters, the 2003 election happened against the backdrop of the war in Iraq. The battles of that war took place during the first half of the campaign, diverting the attention of the media, Landry became known for his custom of wearing the white ribbon. This custom was followed by the two other main party leaders, Charest and Dumont. Landry was the most outspoken critic of the war, the other two were more discreet on the matter. Charest once stated that it was an opportunity to reaffirm his belief in peace, the desire for change was considered an important factor of the campaign. However, while reminding voters that the change was at the core of its primary ideal, sovereignty, the PQ focused its message and publicity not on change. Landry also tried to portray the vote as being a choice between the left wing PQ and two parties of the right, the PLQ portrayed itself as centrist. The PLQ produced dynamic ads and material, and released a new, the ADQ put forward its young, underdog leader, and denied being too much to the right. It first broadcast an advertisement that backfired substantially, with criticism from opponents. It shortly released a brighter, more positive advertising, despite the PQs recovery of support, Charest appeared as a viable alternative for people in desire of change, especially during the Leaders Debate. Also, the Parizeau Affair sparked by Charest is said to have harmed Landrys campaign up to election day, the PQ lead in the public opinion polls vanished by mid-campaign

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Quebec general election, 2007
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The Quebec general election of 2007 was held in the Canadian province of Quebec on March 26,2007 to elect members of the 38th National Assembly of Quebec. The Quebec Liberal Party led by Jean Charest managed to win a plurality of seats, the Action démocratique du Québec, in a major breakthrough, became the official opposition. The Parti Québécois was relegated to third-party status for the first time since the 1973 election. The Liberals won their lowest share of the vote since Confederation. Each of the three parties won nearly one-third of the popular vote, the closest three-way split in Quebec electoral history until the 2012 election. Voter turnout among those eligible was 71. 23%, a difference from the previous general election in 2003. This was the first time since the 1970s that a government was not returned for its second term with a majority, with just over a year left in the governments five year mandate, the Liberals called an election for March 26,2007. In August 2006, there were rumours of an election to be held in the fall with speculation that Premier Jean Charest wanted to hold elections before a federal election would be held. However, as of December 2006, this plan has been put off due to strong resistance to the idea of proportional representation from within the Liberal Party. Speculation grew that an election would be held following the federal budget. It was thought that the federal Conservative government would present a budget that would address the fiscal imbalance. This measure would help Charest argue that his government was more effective in getting concessions from the government than a PQ government would be. Charest recalled the early in order to table a provincial budget on February 20,2007. On February 21, Charest called the election for March 26, Charest wants to negotiate a solution to the problem of the fiscal imbalance between the federal and provincial governments with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. André Boisclair, leader of the Parti Québécois, had said he would hold a referendum on the issue of Quebec independence as soon as possible after an election win, multiculturalism, secularism and the place of cultural and religious minorities in Quebec were issues in this election. There was a large debate over reasonable accommodation towards cultural minorities. 2005 November 15 - André Boisclair is elected as leader of the Parti Québécois with 53. 7% of the vote from party members, December 12 - Two by-elections are held. 2006 February 4 - Québec solidaire, a new left-wing party, is formed from the merger of the Union des forces progressistes party, February 28 - Raymond Bachand enters cabinet as Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade

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Quebec general election, 2008
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The Quebec general election of 2008 was held in the Canadian province of Quebec on December 8,2008. Jean Charest was elected for his mandate and formed a majority government. The 2008 election also marked the first time that Québec solidaire won a seat, Charest called the election on November 5, saying he needed a clear mandate and a majority to handle the economic storm. He was criticized, however, by the Parti Québécois and the Action démocratique du Québec for calling an election to get a majority when they were willing to work with him to fix the economy. Most notably, the election was marked by a significant collapse in support for the ADQ, formerly a relatively minor party, the ADQ had attracted significant protest support in the 2007 election, beating the Parti Québécois to Official Opposition status. In 2008, however, the support dropped back to approximately 15 per cent of the popular vote. As a result of loss of support, Mario Dumont announced in his concession speech that he would step down as party leader. Charest emphasized that the Bloc MPs had been elected by Quebecers, and stated that I live in a society in which people can be sovereigntists or federalists. The same thing should prevail in the federal parliament, march 26 - 38th Quebec general election April 4 - Mario Dumont becomes the leader of the Official Opposition. May 10 - François Gendron becomes the leader of the Parti Québécois. May 24 - The budget speech is pronounced by Monique Jérôme-Forget, both opposition parties announce that they will vote against the budget, causing a crisis in the National Assembly. June 1 - Monique Jérôme-Forget adds 111 million dollars to the budget to avoid the holding of a general election, the budgetary policy is approved by 46 votes against 44. June 7 - Pierre Duchesne becomes the twenty-eighth Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, june 26 - Pauline Marois is elected as leader of the Parti Québécois without opposition. August 13 - Resignation of Rosaire Bertrand as MNA of Charlevoix September 24 - In a by-election, march 13 - Monique Jérôme-Forget pronounces her second budget speech. Mario Dumont announces that the ADQ will vote for the budget, march 16 -94. 8% of the ADQs delegates support their leader, Mario Dumont. March 29 - Guy Rainville is elected as leader of the Green Party against Scott McKay. April 9 - Resignation of Roch Cholette as MNA of Hull May 12 - In by-elections, Maka Kotto, Maryse Gaudreault and Nicole Léger are respectively elected MNAs of Bourget, Hull, the voter turnout is around 34% in the three electoral districts. 5% of the vote. November 5 - Premier Jean Charest calls an election for December 8. com Election Almanac - Quebec Provincial Election

National Assembly of Quebec
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The National Assembly of Quebec is the legislative body of the Province of Quebec in Canada. The Lieutenant Governor, and the National Assembly compose the Legislature of Quebec, the National Assembly was formerly the lower house of Quebecs legislature and was then called the Legislative Assembly of Quebec. In 1968, the house, the Legislative Counc

Quebec
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Quebec is the second-most populous province of Canada and the only one to have a predominantly French-speaking population, with French as the sole provincial official language. Quebec is Canadas largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division and it also shares maritime borders with Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Sc

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The arrival of Samuel de Champlain, the father of New France, on the site of Quebec City.

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Michel's falls on Ashuapmushuan River in Saint-Félicien, Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean.

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View of Jacques-Cartier River from Andante mountain.

Quebec Liberal Party
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The Quebec Liberal Party QLP is a federalist provincial political party in Quebec, Canada. It has been independent of the federal Liberal Party of Canada since 1955, while the party has been described as centre-right in the context of Canadian politics, the party believes in a strong role for government in the economy and supports socially liberal

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Quebec Liberal Party Parti libéral du Québec

Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
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Louis-Alexandre Taschereau was the 14th Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec from 1920 to 1936. He was elected four times, the first in 1900, in the riding of Montmorency and he was also a member of the Parti libéral du Québec. Born in Quebec City, Quebec, the son of Jean-Thomas Taschereau, lawyer and judge at the Supreme Court and he receive

List of Quebec premiers
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This is a list of the premiers of the province of Quebec, Canada, since Confederation in 1867. Quebec uses a unicameral Westminster-style parliamentary government, in which the premier is the leader of the party controls the most seats in the National Assembly. The premier, sometimes called the minister, is Quebecs head of government. The premier p

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Philippe Couillard is the current premier of Quebec.

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Politics of Quebec
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The politics of Quebec are centred on a provincial government resembling that of the other Canadian provinces, namely a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy. The capital of Quebec is Quebec City, where the Lieutenant Governor, Premier, the legislature, the unicameral legislature — the National Assembly of Quebec — has 125 members. Go

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Organization of Powers in Québec

List of political parties in Canada
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This article lists political parties in Canada. One exception is the New Democratic Party, which is integrated with most of its provincial counterparts including a shared membership. Elected legislative government was re-established in 1951, like Nunavut, NWT elects independent candidates and operates by consensus. Some candidates in recent years h

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List of Quebec general elections
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This article provides a summary of results for the general elections to the Canadian province of Quebecs unicameral legislative body, the National Assembly of Quebec. The number of seats has increased over time, from 65 for the first six elections. The chart on the right shows the information graphically, with the most recent elections towards the

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Electoral results by parties and independent MNAs (as a percentage of total National Assembly seats) from 1927 to 2008.

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64 of 65 seats in the 1st Legislative Assembly of Quebec 33 seats were needed for a majority (includes vacant seat, latter filled by by-election)

Quebec general election, 1970
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The Quebec general election of 1970 was held on April 29,1970, to elect members of the National Assembly of Quebec, Canada. The former Legislative Assembly had been renamed the National Assembly in 1968, the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Robert Bourassa, defeated the incumbent Union Nationale, led by Jean-Jacques Bertrand. This election marked the f

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110 seats in the 31st National Assembly of Quebec 56 seats were needed for a majority

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Quebec general election, 1973
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The Quebec general election of 1973 was held on October 29,1973 to elect members to National Assembly of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Robert Bourassa, won re-election, defeating the Parti Québécois, led by René Lévesque, the Liberals won a large majority of the seats. The Union Nationale, which had held power until the

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110 seats in the 31st National Assembly of Quebec 56 seats were needed for a majority

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Quebec general election, 1976
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The Quebec general election of 1976 was held on November 15,1976 to elect members to National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. It was one of the most significant elections in Quebec history, rivalled only by the 1960 general election, the Parti Québécois, led by René Lévesque, defeated the incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Robert Bo

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Quebec general election, 1981
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The Quebec general election of 1981 was held on April 13,1981, to elect members of the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Parti Québécois, led by René Lévesque, won re-election, defeating the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Claude Ryan. To some extent, they were helped by Claude Ryans old-fashioned campaign style, he re

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Quebec general election, 1985
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The Quebec general election of 1985 was held on December 2,1985, to elect members of the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The Quebec Liberal Party, led by former premier Robert Bourassa, defeated the incumbent Parti Québécois and this election marked the comeback of Robert Bourassa, whose political career had been thought to be

Quebec general election, 1994
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The Quebec general election of 1994 was held on September 12,1994, to elect members of the National Assembly of Quebec, Canada. The Parti Québécois, led by Jacques Parizeau, defeated the incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, both his father, Daniel Sr. and brother, Pierre-Marc, had previously served as premiers of Quebec as leaders of different parties.

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125 seats in the 35th National Assembly of Quebec 63 seats were needed for a majority

Quebec general election, 1998
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The Quebec general election of 1998 was held on November 30,1998, to elect members of the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Parti Québécois, led by Lucien Bouchard, won re-election, defeating the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Jean Charest. After the narrow defeat of the PQs proposal for independence for Quebec in an

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125 seats in the 36th National Assembly of Quebec 63 seats were needed for a majority

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Quebec general election, 1998

Quebec general election, 2003
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The Quebec general election of 2003 was held on April 14,2003, to elect members of the National Assembly of Quebec. The Parti libéral du Québec, led by Jean Charest, defeated the incumbent Parti Québécois, a new election was held on May 20 and was won by Champagne by a margin of 642 votes. In 2002, the Parti Québécois government had been in power f

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125 seats in the 37th National Assembly of Quebec 63 seats were needed for a majority

Quebec general election, 2007
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The Quebec general election of 2007 was held in the Canadian province of Quebec on March 26,2007 to elect members of the 38th National Assembly of Quebec. The Quebec Liberal Party led by Jean Charest managed to win a plurality of seats, the Action démocratique du Québec, in a major breakthrough, became the official opposition. The Parti Québécois w

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125 seats in the 38th National Assembly of Quebec 63 seats were needed for a majority

Quebec general election, 2008
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The Quebec general election of 2008 was held in the Canadian province of Quebec on December 8,2008. Jean Charest was elected for his mandate and formed a majority government. The 2008 election also marked the first time that Québec solidaire won a seat, Charest called the election on November 5, saying he needed a clear mandate and a majority to ha

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125 seats in the National Assembly of Quebec 63 seats were needed for a majority